onHand - uber for volunteering

《旗帜晚报》、《每日电讯报》、《地铁》、《BBC电台》和《赫芬顿邮报》都推出了获奖的志愿者配对解决方案。IBM将我们描述为“志愿服务优步”。我们的使命就是创造这样的服务：在全国范围内提供志愿服务的优步--让经过审查的志愿者更容易提供帮助，同时让个人和组织更快、更安全地接受帮助。今天，手头的经过审查的志愿者与需要帮助的老年人和弱势群体进行匹配，这些人在购物、取药/送药、紧急差事和其他必需品等简单任务方面需要帮助。我们能够利用服务不足的企业志愿者市场的需求来帮助解决社会上最紧迫的问题之一，而成本只有今天解决方案的一小部分，而且是英国国民健康保险制度资源最紧张的时候。在新冠肺炎之前，OnHand的志愿者匹配平台已经确立了自己作为护理行业颠覆者的地位，利用科技来简化志愿者和老年人的联系方式。我们对我们平台的响应得到了多位行业专家的称赞，如国家老龄化创新中心和所有媒体。我们的概念已经在伦敦得到了成千上万的用户的测试和验证，其中包括伦敦的哈默史密斯和富勒姆和兰贝斯，他们根据新冠肺炎疫情委托手头上的人帮助他们的居民取得了巨大的成功，我们现在已经开始在更多的城市进行试点。作为一个创新但规模较小的团队，手头上需要投资来扩大规模。赠款资金将使我们能够投资于我们的技术，并在英国各地复制我们的成功。这一发展将使我们从帮助有限地区的1000名弱势老年人S，到帮助全国范围内的1000名S。在后新冠肺炎世界，我们希望手头能恢复为需要帮助的老年人提供更多种类的任务，包括更紧密的联系和家庭支持，如灯光园艺，简单的家务劳动(如更换灯泡和取出垃圾桶)以及基本的陪伴，所有这些都有一个新的志愿者网络，他们即使在新冠肺炎之后也会继续付出他们的时间。这些是我们在当前危机之前成功提供的服务类型--去年为S提供了多个1000小时的帮助。

onHand is an award winning volunteer matching solution, featured by the Evening Standard, The Telegraph, Metro, BBC Radio and the HuffPost. IBM describes us as an "Uber for Volunteering". Our mission is to create exactly that: Uber for volunteering on a national scale - making it easier for vetted volunteers to give help, whilst making it fast and safe for people and organisations to receive help.Today, onHand matches vetted volunteers with older adults and vulnerable people who need help with simple tasks such as shopping, medicine collection/drop offs, urgent errands and other essentials. We have been able to tap into demand to help from the under-served corporate volunteer market to help address one of society's most pressing issues, at a fraction of the cost of today's solutions and when NHS resources are most strained.Prior to COVID-19, onHand's volunteer matching platform had established itself as a disruptor to the care industry, using tech to simplify the way volunteers and older adults connect. The response to our platform has been applauded by various industry experts such as the National Innovation Centre for Ageing and across the media.Our concept has been tested and proven in London by thousands of users including by the London Boroughs of Hammersmith & Fulham and Lambeth, who commissioned onHand to help their residents in light of the COVID-19 outbreak to great success and we have now begun pilots in further cities.As an innovative yet small team, onHand needs investment to scale. Grant funding would allow us to invest in our technology and replicate our successes across the UK. This development will take us from helping 1000's of vulnerable older adults in limited areas to helping 100's of 1000's across the country.In a post COVID-19 world, we hope that onHand can resume providing a larger variety of tasks for older people who need help, including closer contact and in-home support such as light gardening, simple tasks around the house (like changing light-bulbs and taking the bins out) and basic companionship, all with a network of new volunteers who continue to give their time even after COVID-19\. These are the types of services we successfully provided prior to the current crisis - delivering multiple 1000's of hours of help in the last year.